Everybody Into the Pool!

When it's too stupid to be news, it becomes a meme

We can’t stand to read another article on Trump’s ill-fated “renovation” of the Reflecting Pool. Is it worth even one serious consideration of the Edifice Complex President’s delusional attempt to shift blame for wrecking the pool to…what was it? Antifa? High school kids? The Loch Ness Monster?

Sometimes absurdity is a relief from the daily horrors of 770,000 kids losing SNAP benefits because of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill (and if you don’t subscribe to ProPublica, which reported on this, you really should); the five-year civil war in Myanmar chronicled by New York Times reporter Hannah Beech in a profound, Pulitzer-worthy story of bravery and human suffering, yet another unjust war ignored by Americans while they obsess about Israel and Epstein, and, yes, of course, there’s the hostile takeover of our political system by autistic Tech Dorks. These links will bring you to stories that are worth reading.

What can we do about all of these horrors? The usual things. In the meantime, take note that an explosion of memes is the equivalent of rock and roll, proving that Americans still have creativity, reminding us that sometimes satire is the only sane response to a world gone mad.

We’ve done the collecting. (Curating, if you must.) Feel free to cut and paste. Note to the next president: Give the good guys in Myanmar some help, OK? And while you’re at it, Ukraine, for Chrissakes.

We’ll be back to politics as usual in a few days.

And the last word….

I hold your artists to be the most responsible. All your philosophers and encyclopedists discredited the regime through irony and doubt, like Beaumarchais: his Marriage of Figaro was more dangerous than 10,000 mortars aimed at the nobility.

La Nuit de Varennes, 1982